Pocket match-safe



(No Model.)

G. P. WIDMANN.

- POCKET MATCH SAFE.-

No. 464,405. Patented Dec. 1, 1891 WITNESSES: /N VENTOf? A TTOHNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. IVIDMANN, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

POCKET MATCH-SAFE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 464,405, dated December 1, 1891. Application filed March 11, 1891. Serial No. 384,550. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. WIDMANN, of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Pocket Match-Safes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a combination of several useful implements in compact form for carriage in the pocket of the user, the object being to afford a convenient assemblage of instruments in one case that are usually carried separately.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the views.

Figure 1 is a side view of. the device with the implements exposed. Fig. 2 is a side view of the device with one side of the case removed to show the implements in folded adjustment, and Fig. 3 is an exterior side view of the device with all parts in a folded condition.

The case A, which contains the assembled tools or instruments, is preferably given a rectangular form and is made of as small dimensions as the size of the contained parts will allow, so as to insure their efficient servspring I) is attached by one end, there is a second spring cl, secured therein by rivets e e,that pass through the spring and side walls of the case A at such points as will retain said spring and permit its end (1' to have proper resilience. The opposite end of the spring d is curved, as represented, and on its convex face (Pa roughened surface should be formed to serve as a nail-rasp and also as a rough abutment whereon matches may be scratched to ignite them. The space intervening between the wall a and the spring at affords a commodious match-safe, wherein a quantity of matches 9 may be placed ready for use when the lid of case is opened. Such a pro portionate space is provided in the case A, exterior of the spring d, by the extension of its parallel side walls that there is room affordcd for the introduction therein of the two knife-bladesO D, button-hook E, and scissors F, which are all pivoted at 7?, on one transverse rivet, so as to properly bear upon the end portion d of the spring at and by its tensional force be retained in open or closed adjustment.

It is evident that any of the parts just named may be used separately, if extended, as indicated by the position of the large blade 0, or all may be completely folded within the case A, as shown in Fig. 2.

At Ga perforation is formed in both of the side walls of the case A, near the free end of the large blade 0, said aligning apertures being designed to permit the insertion therein of the end of a cigar that is to be clipped off; and as the sharp-curved end portion t' of the large knife-blade 0 lies across the apertures, if said blade is slightly elevated so as to cause its cutting-edge to rest upon the inserted end of a cigar, a rotation of the latter will shear its projected portion off neatly.

There is a roughened edge 2' found on the large blade 0, which serves as a finger-nail rasp and can also be utilized for other purposes.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters onAEIZEs F. WIDMANN.

Witnesses:

ERNST WIDMANN, Jos. ADAMS. 

